Love, Gun, Cupid

Ragnar smiled dismissively. He pushed the spell forward with all his might. The simple-looking fireball fell to the ground in a simple way, spreading outward with a simple impact. Lin Jiade turned around and saw the sky lit up by the light, the black silhouette of the city disintegrating in the flames.

They ran and ran, and after running for three kilometers, they finally escaped the range of the spell's damage. He looked back and saw a deep, sunken pit behind him.

Lin Jiade swallowed hard and asked, "How many floors can you carry a bag of rice up?"

"It covers an area of ​​at least 30 square kilometers, and this is a spell he conjured up in just a few minutes..." Mu Mian looked at Lin Jiade, "Do you really think this is something we can handle?"

Lin Jiade's mind was a bit confused. He shook his head. If he had a substitute oracle, he would have taken Ragnar's skill head-on and killed the opponent. Unfortunately, reality doesn't offer so many "what ifs".

"Ragnar is coming!" the ice cave said.

“Let’s go, we need to go back and call reinforcements to deal with him,” Lin Jiade turned and ran. “He’s no longer an ordinary ambitious man, but a terrorist with powerful destructive capabilities. We must strike hard!”

He tried to run, but Ragnar was faster. The white dragon advanced in the manner of Tony Stark, with his hands and feet on fire, and in an instant, he flew in front of Lingard. Seeing that Lingard was about to run away again, he waved his hand and said, "No, let's change the game. If it's just about crushing you, I'll find it very boring."

Ragnar was so "kind" because he overdid it when showing off his new power, causing his newly fused authority to become unstable.

Therefore, on the one hand, he had to contend with the authority that was trying to break free, and on the other hand, he did not want to let Lin Jiade and the others go and reclaim the last part of Athena's authority from the ice cave. That's why he rushed over in a hurry and pretended to play cat and mouse with Lin Jiade.

What worried him was that Lin Jiade had no intention of fighting him and was only thinking about running away. Considering that Lin Jiade had been a swordsman who called for reinforcements a long time ago, it was not surprising that he would do such a thing.

He thought, "I used too much force."

If Lin Jiade and his companions escape back to the Empire, then the Empire's punitive expeditionary force can be teleported over within a day, and within two hours at most, his head will appear in the Senate, becoming a useful tool for conservative senators to attack radical senators.

Therefore, Lin Jiade and his group, along with the secret, had to stay.

Thinking this, the fiery gate opened at Ragnar's location, and a hand made of flames reached through the gate, pulling the slender, short figure towards him. The familiar voice made Lin Jiade turn around, and he immediately stopped, clenching his fists: "Damn it, let her go!"

Jasmine glared at Ragnar with the same anger. Ragnar shook his head helplessly and said, "You are my daughter."

"I'm not!"

“It’s not up to you, it’s the truth.” Ragnar’s gaze toward Lingard grew even colder. “Your boyfriend, that human, may not be the cause of the tragedy, but his existence makes you stubbornly identify yourself as a red dragon. Is it fun to deceive yourself? My silly daughter.”

"You keep saying you're my father, but you've never looked at me like a father!"

Jasmine struggled fiercely, opening her palms towards Ragnar's face. She unleashed a powerful spell, illuminating the nearby sky.

As Leifa and Ragnar's shields locked in a stalemate, Mumian pulled out her rifle, knelt down, and fired. The first few bullets she fired were harmless, but the real killing move was hidden in the last bullet of the magazine.

The bullet struck, directly disabling Ragnar's shield. As he channeled his power to expel the bullet's effects and restore his shield, Rayfa's power surged in, heading straight for his face.

As Ragnar took the brunt of the lightning strike head-on, Lin Jiade, who was skilled at ambushes, gathered his strength in his left leg and propelled himself into the sky, throwing the celestial weapon towards Ragnar. He then transformed into a sword and flew towards Ragnar.

Ragnar was unharmed in the Refaeli area. Jasmine followed up with a breath attack to continue obscuring Ragnar's vision, but Ragnar had already sensed the arrival of two flying swords, one in front and one behind, with the threat coming from the first one.

The ice cave and the kapok trees also launched a restraining attack at this time, but Ragnar ignored them, put his hands together, and clamped the blade of the celestial weapon between his palms, the tip of which was only a few centimeters away from his chest.

He was relieved, but his relief lasted only a second. Lin Jiade deactivated his sword form and activated the Lionheart spell. Moonlight shimmered in his eyes, but he was completely unaware of it. He simply used the last bit of momentum to move through the air and, at the limit of his range, kicked out and landed solidly on the hilt of his sword.

"Go to hell!"

The spell on his waist lit up, and the wind that billowed backward propelled him forward. His legs and the sword he was kicking propelled forward together, pushing the previously still celestial weapon forward and piercing Ragnar's chest. The blade, dripping with golden blood, passed right through his chest.

Ragnar and Lingard's bodies recoiled in opposite directions and fell. The fiery palm dissipated in mid-air, and Jasmine fell to the ground. Square pieces of paper peeled off her body, unfolded, and transformed into a cradle that gently caught her and Lingard.

Lin Jiade gave a thumbs up: "That was a beautiful shot, Jasmine."

Jasmine paused for a moment, then replied in a gentle voice, "That was a beautiful goal, Lin Jiade."

Jasmine then put on the mask of pain. One of her arms was broken, and it seemed that the battle had aggravated her injury. Before Lin Jiade could comfort her, Jasmine turned around, dragging her arm. She pieced together all the paper pieces into the shape of a chrysanthemum shield, facing the oncoming flames and the swords mixed in with the flames.

With a thought, Lin Jiade's celestial weapon returned to his hand. He stood up, leaning on Mu Mian's shoulder, and saw that Ragnar's chest wound was slowly healing.

"The biggest improvement of a top-tier superhuman compared to a high-tier superhuman lies in their means of survival. Once you are given this title, you have access to practical methods of survival... although the cost is high, making superhumans like small loan sharks who can't repay their loans, with interest snowballing until they are finally forced to loyally bind themselves to the empire's war machine."

The bad news is that if you have the opportunity to be promoted to the highest rank, you will experience the full range of temptations of the Empire, as well as the whip and chains hidden behind those temptations.

The good news is, you're going to die today, so you don't need to worry about the future.

Chapter 113 The Holy Land is Completed (4)

Ragnar retied his bow tie, using it to suppress the restless power within him. Up to now, he had nominally merged with this thing, learned new spells and new knowledge, but had not drawn upon it any power equivalent to the rules of the Celestial Observer; it was as if it were merely a foreign object implanted in his body.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, this is something left behind by the gods, and its compatibility with dragons is a problem... Even if he solves the compatibility problem, his learning cycle for fully utilizing power similar to that of a celestial observer might be measured in decades.

Once the power within him settled down, Ragnar chose to double his output, increasing his power. Jasmine's previously precarious barrier collapsed, and the square pieces of paper that formed the barrier turned into charred remains in the flames, shattering upon hitting the ground.

Lin Jiade rolled to one side with Jasmine in his arms, while Kapok rolled to the other side with Ice Cave in her arms, witnessing the remaining flames melt a deep ravine into the center line of the asphalt road.

"Humph."

Ragnar clenched his fist, and flames seeping from the ground lifted the area where Lin Jiade and Jasmine were. At the last second, Jasmine grabbed Lin Jiade and threw him out, but screamed in agony within her clasped fiery palm.

Lin Jiade tried to cut off the flames with his sword, but Ragnar cunningly moved the Jasmine Master in the birdcage behind him. Lin Jiade pushed himself out, landed, and thrust his sword into Ragnar's heart. Ragnar pulled his weapon out of the flames to parry, but was unsurprisingly destroyed by the celestial weapon.

In the instant of destruction, the wreckage of Ragnar's weapon exploded. Ragnar remained standing, while Lingard was thrown away by the blast wave, his shield becoming almost transparent.

A new wave of swords and blades hurtled toward Lin Jiade. The tip of the Kapok Sword pointed to the sky, releasing an energy that intercepted all the attacks. Ice Cave, riding its magic wand, tried to catch Lin Jiade, but both of them fell to the ground and rolled around for a while before stopping.

Lin Jiade stood up and roughly pulled Bing Dong up. He gripped his sword and was about to fight Ragnar to the death when Bing Dong grabbed his arm and said, "Idiot, he's just taking advantage of his high defense and thick health bar to deliberately lure you into exchanging health, slowly torturing you. If Jasmine sees this, the torture will be doubled."

“It’s fine if you don’t come. Just stay on the sidelines and watch the show,” Ragnar said.

He increased the output, and Jasmine suffered terribly in the flames until mirror-like cracks appeared on the surface of her body.

All of this happened in just a few seconds. Lin Jiade ran from the ice cave to the kapok tree and saw Ragnar remove the flames, allowing Jasmine to descend to the ground.

At this moment, all the red elements faded from Jasmine's body. When Lin Jiade first looked at her, "pure white" dominated his first impression of Jasmine: her long, captivating white hair, her clean skin that almost radiated a transparent quality, and her white scales and tail.

Although Lin Jiade didn't want to admit it, the white jasmine was more attractive to him than the red jasmine.

“Jasmine?” he said.

“It’s me,” Jasmine said in a trembling voice. “I remember a lot of things, a lot of things before I was called Jasmine, my mother, a clumsy but gentle woman.”

That day I was drawing with crayons at home when I suddenly heard someone banging on the door. I left my room and saw people breaking in from the first floor. The man in the lead punched my mother to the ground and then pinned her to the sofa with a weapon.

She was bleeding a lot, but she still told me to run, but I couldn't run. My legs wouldn't obey me. Then they dragged me from the second floor to the first floor.

I was trampled on the ground, looking at my mother's face, desperately trying to get closer to her. My mother was trying to pull out her weapon, but that only made her wound bleed more.

The thugs spoke to me, saying that my father had driven them to their doom, but how could I know any of this? They were going to kill me, but a woman stopped them, saying that she was being kept alive for a purpose. Then the thugs stopped, lifted me up, and made me see the woman's face and his own face... those were my future father and mother.

On one side is the executioner who slaughtered women and children, and on the other is the foolish father who played happily with his daughter. I can't tell which one is him, and which one isn't; which is the real him, and which is the deceitful one… I just can no longer consider that man my father.

Ragnar smiled and said, "You were able to be stubborn before, and stand on the side of your enemy to oppose your own father, because you didn't understand the truth. As long as the restrictions placed on you by the Red Dragon are lifted, you will no longer be able to compete with them. You will only feel anger and the shame of recognizing a thief as your father."

My daughter, although your past willful behavior has made it impossible for me to love you as much as before, it's not too late for us to reconcile and rebuild our relationship.

“No, I refuse,” Jasmine said.

Ragnar's smile froze on his face. Jasmine pressed her hand to her chest and said, "I already have the most important person in my life. Whatever the truth may be, it doesn't affect my feelings for him."

Even in my new memories, I only see my mother and not you. You are like an outsider in my memory, even less than the person who killed my mother and raised me. I can't regard you as my father... even though we are related by blood.

Therefore, I am not the red dragon; perhaps I am the white dragon, but my identity will always be Jasmine.

The mark on her chest lit up, passing through her clothes and imprinting the shape of happiness into Ragnar's mind. Ragnar felt a buzzing in his head, his vision went black, and his temples throbbed as he watched Jasmine return to her nest like a fledgling bird, nestling into Lin Jiade's arms.

Even though Jasmine's figure had disappeared from his sight, Ragnar's eyes still held the shadow of happiness etched on them. That bastard human, how dare he, how dare he carve such a mark of possession on my daughter.

A father's possessiveness toward his daughter is mostly a possessiveness toward his relatives, and a small part is a man's possessiveness toward women. No man wants a woman he knows well to be taken away by someone else, even if that person is his sister, his daughter or someone else. Some extreme men will automatically put on a cuckold's hat in such matters and feel like they have become the victim.

What was churning in Ragnar's heart now was the anger and bitterness of the victim. Before, he had provoked Lin Jiade's anger and enjoyed it, but now, when he realized that Lin Jiade had "cuckolded" him, he no longer wanted to play hard to get and just wanted to kill him as soon as possible.

With a thought, he vanished from his spot, and flames surged like a river along the street toward Lin Jiade and his companions.

Sorry, I received a moldy product from JD.com, and the complaint took some time to process.

Chapter 114 The Holy Land is Complete (5) (Two-in-One)

Lin Jiade was unaware that he had become a blond-haired man in Ragnar's eyes, but Ragnar's hatred was clearly visible; the river of flames surged forth, with most of its impact aimed at him.

"Thank you, Jasmine, I'm really touched by your feelings." Lin Jiade hugged Jasmine and stepped back. "However, it seems my hatred for Ragnar has doubled."

"Or would it be better if I sided with him and joined forces with him to deal with you?"

"I would be heartbroken if that happened."

Ice Cave and Kapok, in perfect unison, turned their heads to one side, secretly rolling their eyes. They couldn't stand that this silly couple had to put on a show of affection even while they were fighting.

At the same time, a sense of jealousy began to creep into their hearts. They couldn't bring themselves to have the same unwavering and pure love for Lin Jiade as Jasmine did. She could even tolerate Lin Jiade having a harem, which was an astonishing sacrifice.

As for Lin Jiade, even the Celestial Observer transformed into Jasmine to tempt him, proving that the Celestial Observer also knew that Jasmine was his number one priority. He had initially wanted to run away, but after Jasmine was captured, he immediately lost his mind and fought desperately against the powerful Ragnar, disregarding everything...

If only he could work this hard for me. This was a thought shared by Ice Cave and Kapok.

Ragnar's fierce offensive left them with nowhere to stand. Lin Jiade threw Jasmine onto a nearby office building. Jasmine landed on it, wrapped her tail around the air conditioner unit, and climbed upwards. Lin Jiade and Kapok transformed into swords, which Jasmine held in her hands. Ice Cave followed nearby on its wand.

Ragnar, of course, would not let them go. Under his control, the flames transformed from a river into a giant serpent, climbing and coiling around them, creating explosive sounds wherever they went. The giant serpent opened its mouth, and hundreds of swords shot upwards in its fiery breath.

Jasmine tried to activate the Thunder Magic, but it had already vanished. She tried to manipulate the square piece of paper, but it had already burned to ashes. With a low growl, her body transformed into a dragon once more, and the energetic dragon-like form replaced her humanoid form.

Swords emerged from the flames, rapidly launching themselves and colliding with Ragnar's swords, unleashing bursts of fire. Although they were not evenly matched, being driven upwards by Ragnar's attacks, which outnumbered them several times over, Jasmine's valiant efforts reduced the risks faced by Lin Jiade and Mian, giving their severely weakened shields a chance to recharge.

At that moment, the ice cave, which was flying into the sky, suddenly froze. A sword pierced through her back and emerged from her lower abdomen. It was the aftershock of Ragnar's attack. The one in a thousand probability that happened to the ice cave had become a 100% fact.

She lost her strength and opened her mouth to say something, but her feeble words disappeared into the air. Her ascent continued to decrease until she stopped at a certain height, and then she was pulled by gravity and fell to the ground.

Damn it!

Lin Jiade, who had transformed into a sword, had dulled his senses and only noticed his companion's abnormality at this moment. He changed direction to save the ice cave and transformed back into human form as he approached her.

Lin Jiade's figure was reflected in the gradually dissipating pupils of the ice cave, and at the same time, it was also illuminated by the swords and blades chasing after Lin Jiade.

"You're about to die, and so are the people you care about."

The voice of the Moon Goddess's Authority entered the ice cave's senses, slowing down the ice cave's perception of time. The Moon Goddess's Authority continued, "The weapon Ragnar created utilizes his understanding of the celestial knowledge contained within the Authority. Although he only grasped about 0.000005%, it still slightly improved his magic... Specifically, it made it more powerful."

The person who came to rescue you had a good plan. Based on past experience, he was certain that his recharged shield could withstand the damage from those weapons. He would carry you to the ground, hide somewhere, and treat your wounds with a medkit. If he acted decisively and made no mistakes, you actually had a 65% chance of surviving.

Unfortunately, Ragnar's spells have become stronger; the overflowing destructive power will directly shatter Lingard's shield, severely injuring him, while you will slowly die from blood loss.

The ice cave pleaded, "My lord, please save him, even just her!"

“He is, after all, someone who has been imbued with the aura of the Moon Goddess, so of course I will save him. However, I cannot do it myself… Do you understand what I mean? I need a medium to infuse my power.”

“I do!” the ice cave said.

“I understand how you feel, but let me tell you beforehand that during the process of infusing power, your form will change, breaking away from the concept of human or humanoid.”

"I am willing!"

"Really? No matter how grateful Lin Jiade is to you, he won't like your strange appearance. Because he is grateful for your kindness, you will stay by his side, but you will never get the intimacy you crave... to crave but not to have is a cruel punishment for humans with abundant desires."

"Is it scary? Yes, it's very scary, but if it's for Lin Jiade..."